Camille D. Jamerson, C.E.M®CEO & Senior Principal Consultant, CDJ & Associates · Executive Advisor | Chief of Staff | Strategy, Operations & Communications Leader | Crisis & Organizational Transformation

Know who you are NOT

27 Sept 2020 · 1 min

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In this short motivational monologue, the speaker challenges the common advice to "know who you are" by proposing a reverse approach: first identify what you are definitely NOT. By cataloguing the traits, purposes, or roles you are sure you do not embody, you can eliminate false possibilities and narrow down the remaining options, leading to clearer insight into your true identity and purpose. The speaker frames this negative inventory as a practical, clarifying tool for self‑definition, encouraging listeners to use what they know they aren't to discover who they truly are.

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Hey guys, this mogul moment is a little bit different because we're going to talk about knowing who you are. And I know you hear that a lot, you gotta know who you are, you know what your purpose is, and all that's fine and good, but to be quite honest, that's not as easy as people try to make that out to be. So I will challenge you, in order to really figure that out, sometimes instead of going after or searching what's my purpose, what should I be doing, what am I here for, before, who am I? Why don't you do the opposite? Why don't you do kind of an inventory of what you know that you are not, or who you know you are not, and then look at what's left and determine from there who you really are. Sometimes in trying to define ourselves, that road may be easier. It's like, I'm not quite sure if I'm that, but what I know for sure is I'm not that, that, that. I know that this is what I stand for, this is what I believe in, I know it's not that. Sometimes taking away the things that you know for sure aren't in the equation will leave you with just enough information to bring clarity. So that's our mogul moment for today. Look at what you are not to help you try to define who you really are.